Should the expulsion of Acadians be considered a genocide? | Your Morning

Eric Dow from the Acadian Society of New Brunswick gives a brief lesson on who the Acadians were and how they were forced to leave.
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[@hockeyme3113]

No matter what you call it, it still happened. You couldn't kill us all.

[@jonathansgarden9128]

Nope. My momma is Cajun and the badassery was passed down :) Our ancestors went through hell

[@marc.b.weed.extream9480]

now is all good .. so how good it is . tooday in acadie .. the wold is crying .. we are all happy .. ok gaz $ is up but we got farms and we hunt ..

[@davidpeterson506]

The real tragedy is that there even is a debate that this kind of cruelty and misuse of power over greed , jealousy and racial intolerance could possibly be anything else but a genocide.

[@Ragnarook77]

Racial intolerance? Watta ya goin' on about?

[@annbennett217]

@@Ragnarook77 we are mixed. In 1755, acadians we mixed.

[@Ragnarook77]

@@annbennett217 Not really. Acadians and Natives intermixed from time to time, but not nearly significant enough to call the entire Acadian population "a race". That's just silly.

[@francesthieme3943]

He excludes the intermarried families, Acadian & Mi'Kmaq. He excludes the fact that many died jailed on ships and brought to ENGLAND to be jailed. Many were also brought to the Islands and treated like crap there too. Never have I heard that my peoples made it back to France.. He must be a Brit at heart!

[@butterflybluelu]

The deportation began in Acadia with Lawrence and Amherst and Amherst continued killing all the way to standing rock to eradicate the Roman Catholic families. It was the precursor for the American Revolution. That was the battle that followed all this.

[@kaylapellegrin1243]

We are still here ... Proud Cajun here ...

[@danblair1591]

I’m learning about the Arcadian Expulsion for the first time as an an Arcadian descendant from my paternal grandmother who’s maiden name was Doucet.

[@waynemclaughlin8937]

The Acadians and the Micmac Indigenous people in the Atlantic Provinces were equally treated poorly by the British soldiers under the command of Charles Lawrence and Lord Robert Monckton in the 18th century of Acadia the expulsion of the French Acadians happened between 1755-1764 in all of the Acadians 14,000. 11,055 Acadians were deported from Acadia. And in a census taken in 1764 only 2,600 Acadians escape some of whom freeze to death because they had no shelter or died of hunger. Sadly also when the British sent some of the Acadians to be deported to England and France a ship known as the Violet it sank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean as it sailed to France killing hundreds of Acadians aboard men, women and children. 😔😢

[@Ragnarook77]

Lawrence made the command, and Monckton carried the order.

[@charlene9693]

Uh yes. That is genocide!!

[@Herb615]

Yes. This was obviously genocide.

[@jimmyhat3438]

If this happened to anyone else it would be considered Genocide. Most died on the voyage on the sea

[@annbennett217]

Uh yea... are you ppl even acadian? Yeesh. Louisiana... eventually...????? In 1755 we were put on ships and sent away from everything we knew, with no real destination being set for us... we starved till someone would let us on land. That doesn't even come close to explaining what they did to the ones of us who didn't get on the ships. We shoulda all been wiped out from these atrocities. It is by sheer luck, strength, and wit, that we exist today. Ya'll shouldn't even be allowed to debate genocide up in your fancy news room 🙄

[@Ragnarook77]

I find three of your comments slightly off-putting. Why does it matter if they aren't Acadian? Why shouldn't they be allowed to talk about Acadians? And what was about the Louisiana comment that you found offensive?

[@LucRoy-u1z]

Les acadien son encore on acadie les anglais on pas pu toute nous shipper

[@UrDriverDaniel]

We are still here!!

[@jameshallock9619]

where is our reconciliation commission? where is our dispensation of compensation? my ancestral family name is Alarie on my grandmother's side out of Nova Scotia.

[@dotparker4882]

Their is some in Saskatchewan to!!

[@laviothmartel9813]

Give my land back foo

[@charlene9693]

They tried to kill us all, but they couldn’t!!

[@Ragnarook77]

@@charlene9693 They did not try to kill us all. That is a fallacy.

[@Ragnarook77]

Somewhere, a native is shaking his head to your comment.

[@SonsoftheEagle]

Our people's skin isn't dark enough for the narrative.

[@ViscosAtlantic]

🇨🇦 Moral-governments Ford & Trudeau did the same as the British to the Acadiens by upping housing prices. So did property owning for-profits

[@Reddylion]

Hmm

[@Funnybriton]

Yes.

[@Ragnarook77]

“The intention of the Acadian removal was not to exterminate,” he said. “Did it have the consequence of killing thousands? Yes. But to bring a charge of genocide … you must be able to show intent.” “There’s no doubt that a moral atrocity was committed", "It’s a very complicated story. The attempt to try to reduce it to a simple moral binary: was it genocide or not, really misses the point.” -John Mack Faragher, Professor, Historian I'm going to let the relevant literature, as well as the opinions of scholars, historians, and sociologists, mould my understanding of what occurred with Acadia and Acadians, and whether or not it's deemed to be called a "genocide".

[@tlandry9689]

I am a descendant of Le Grande Derangement. My ancestors settled in Louisiana and their story have been verbally passed down through the generations. I would call it more of an ethnic cleansing

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

So when you murder half of a population what would you call that? Ethnic cleansing? Genocide, ethnic cleansings or whatever you want to call it - they tried to eliminate, in one way or another, through death or forced removal an entire people.

[@jonathansgarden9128]

@@tlandry9689 as am I through the Louisiana Cajun lines (my mom is Cajun). I definitely agree, as my momma and uncles have passed it down